Alexandra Burke exudes elegance in one shoulder navy gown as she joins her partner Darren Randolph at the British Independent Film Awards
Alexandra Burke was the picture of sophistication on Sunday night as she attended the 26th British Independent Film Awards at Old Billingsgate in London with her partner Darren Randolph.
The singer, 35, looked sensational in a one shoulder midnight blue gown, that was adorned with a large silk bow.
She added an extra few inches of height to her frame with a pair of black pointed high heels.
Alexandra toted a coordinating navy quilted clutch purse and completed her classy look with a pair of statement earrings.
Darren, 36, looked handsome as he cuddled up to the X Factor star, wearing a charcoal grey suit over a black turtleneck.
Alexandra Burke was the picture of sophistication on Sunday night as she attended the 26th British Independent Film Awards at Old Billingsgate in London with her partner Darren Randolph
The singer, 35, looked sensational in a one shoulder midnight blue gown, that was adorned with a large silk bow
Alexandra toted a coordinating navy quilted clutch purse and completed her classy look with a pair of statement earrings
The couple’s outing comes after they recently welcomed their second child together in September.
Last week, Alexandra revealed she asked Darren to sleep in a separate bed to her as she discussed struggling to ‘juggle’ her long-distance relationship with being a mother.
She said although the sleeping arrangements between the pair ‘worked a treat’ for their first child, she ended up asking the footballer to move into a separate room after the arrival of the second.
Speaking on the Dirty Mother Pukka podcast, she said: ‘Then I got pregnant again so that meant “Baby’s coming soon…what are we gonna do, hun? I want this baby in the bed with me and I wanna sleep with the baby…I think you should go to the floor or the next room!”’
Alexandra went on to explain that while her partner wasn’t keen on the idea of sleeping alone, he now plays for AFC Bournemouth and the couple have had to make their relationship work long-distance.
She said: ‘Long story short, I remember saying to Darren “I think you should sleep in another room, and I think I should have both babies in the bed with me.” But he said we couldn’t do that.
‘And anyway, it turned out, he moved teams and he now lives two hours away. So in fact, I’m by myself and he comes home once a week.’
She added: ‘It’s really tough because I’m trying to get my time with him, but I know he needs to get his time with the kids.
Darren, 36, looked handsome in a charcoal grey suit over a black turtleneck as he led the X Factor star out of the event
The couple’s outing comes after they recently welcomed their second child together in September
Last week, Alexandra revealed she asked Darren to sleep in a separate bed to her as she discussed struggling to ‘juggle’ her long-distance relationship with being a mother
‘And so I pull back. I go “No, do you, go softplay, I’ll sit with the newborn, you go with the eldest go and play and do what you want to do.”
‘I’m struggling to juggle it, if I’m honest. Kids do change things, it is really tough. It’s really tough.
‘Last night we went over to this beautiful Christmas event and when it finished we went in separate cars, separate ways. I made him dinner – I left it in the car for him so he had something to eat on his two-hour journey home.
‘This morning he called me, we Facetime every morning, and he looked really emotional. He said “I’m just struggling with the fact that I’m so far”.’
Alexandra also broke down in tears as she revealed the immense guilt she felt when she returned to work just two months after giving birth to her first child in June last year.
She took minimal maternity leave in order to re-join the touring production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Alexandra cried as she revealed a time when she pleaded with bosses to delay the start of a show because her baby was distressed and needed feeding.
She said: ‘There were times when I was about to go on stage, and I can’t remember what venue I was in, and my first born was crying and they’re like “curtain needs to go up” and I was like “I need to feed the baby”. I said “Hold the show”.
Alexandra also broke down in tears as she revealed the immense guilt she felt when she returned to work just two months after giving birth to her first child in June last year
She took minimal maternity leave in order to re-join the touring production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
‘The pressure I had and felt to get my a**e on that stage. I said “You may (as) well just let me feed the baby because I’m crying on stage”, and you couldn’t open the show because I was standing there crying.
‘And as much as everyone was like “the baby will be fine, it will be fine”. But I’m their mum and I felt such guilt, and I still hold that guilt. It’s not like even the baby remembers, but I won’t forget that.’
Alexandra said it was a huge learning curve for her and she will ‘never allow myself to walk away from my child ever again’.
‘I also have to say whilst I felt that pressure, and that moment stays with me, I did of course sign up to do that show and the curtain does go up at 7.30pm every single night and I’m very much aware of that.
‘There are thousands of people in the audience waiting for the show to start so I don’t blame anyone for that situation. At the same time it still makes me feel emotional.’
BIFA 2023 WINNERS
Best British Independent Film – ALL OF US STRANGERS
Best International Independent Film – ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet, Arthur Harari, Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion)
Best Director – ANDREW HAIGH (All of Us Strangers)
Best Lead Performance -MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE (How to Have Sex)
Best Joint Lead Performance – NATHAN STEWART-JARRETT and GEORGE MACKAY (Femme)
Best Supporting Performance – PAUL MESCAL (All of Us Strangers) and SHAUN THOMAS (How to Have Sex)
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) – SAVANAH LEAF (Earth Mama)
Breakthrough Producer – THEO BARROWCLOUGH (Scrapper)
Breakthrough Performance – VIVIAN OPARAH (Rye Lane)
Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary – CHLOE ABRAHAMS (The Taste of Mango)
Best Debut Screenwriter – NIDA MANZOOR (Polite Society)
The Raindance Maverick Award – IF THE STREETS WERE ON FIRE (Alice Russell, Gannesh Rajah)
Best Feature Documentary – IF THE STREETS WERE ON FIRE (Alice Russell, Gannesh Rajah)
Best British Short Film – FESTIVAL OF SLAPS (Abdou Cissé, Cheri Darbon, George Telfer)
The Richard Harris Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Actor to British Film – STEPHEN GRAHAM
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